Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1858 — Which is the Sectional Party [ARTICLE]

Which is the Sectional Party

The Republican's believe that the inetitul tion of-negro slavery is injuri-- : • to the troi- . interest fit the whit-- race, an 1 especially op-p-oSed to the interest ip th-- . hi! ial.-oring classes, iipStates where the - ist:tuti< n ■■■ •ists. Bult. th-- Republicans oppose-I Congressjro.nal interference, o- th-- ;n----ence of frjoe States,kwith slawrv' iri th - - laveholdirig Htates; an-Ithey are also to’ the ptvlidy - <?f extojiiding ami <' -!lushing slaverv.’lijv' force or by fraud, in fr-,'l’errit->-ries whicli belong teithe people -■; -he United iStat.es in common i. When the .- it!?.-.• ns Aof such Terriitc-ries ar-! prepar-'d to term a CoUI st.itiition flor th. '.wives, it is their pr- r.ogali'.e to ipermit "■ cxHucc sla'.wry, Tding ! trCtbcir.own yyi 11 The cen’rol ling sein'i in ent of w hat is ca! i-"d 'the DemoFr.i. party i” the site.-I--•<bling Si'.tsa, is in u.v-uof'th- in.-t.it,uti"..u <>(.sh.' rv. a l .,d in ’or itis ■ .tension tiir.-ugho'j the Terrib-rii-s and Stat- t■ 'f nion. ' The klavoflu dding S’atc- have, '.''irh L-reat. nnanmi'tv puppoft-'-J ithe policy <M (his pro's----nt Adt/i Hstration {t ttie'general gqvernrieiit; arid! al,v -ugii it. is heli-wed that, tiro r t ,.' sen.tiiiients , e>t tho.s-. w' : ,, /< u . ifie' na.iw of D- :■ i■ *i■ rutin i'"' tri <- States are ' not'in lavdr "f th-' extent nos slat er'.’over free Terr; fury, yet t-lis tion of l'ne mod ern Deniou.acy has been induo-d to ai'quies l ' l ' ~ n, tie geni-ral vic ,vs Itnd policy of tic- Dem- ' ocrals of th- rlav-'-holding States; aml this 'latter - iass of Derncjeruts has, in a great measure.’,c bntroll-'d t|he p->lie, p! j ent A-itni'n •stratL>:i, --Ind mad'.' it int ■■ n.-■< 1 v ' svctiiuTa*,-!-b til-? q:i/-stlion <>!~ th- <? vteusioii of -laV'-rv. arid, iiid-'-d. <■’> nl! ih-- '-nt-'r n-i----tiuna 1 io-• t ion's. I The Sent -e ot'Ehe Un 1 t-'d Sta t- s, lias i-evil ! sect ion till zdd hv the" )A dm inis t rat ion . par’, . )Of the twekity-onv st.kn’ding .-. v; < ill- i-s ari ranged Iby till- bod? afr itsci;■ts --as i ■ ci. . V■■ /, v --re head- Hby -infirm--r> .'r-uri slav-'-lio'.diiig 'States; a-, - . . Caeli of tile mor- impr-'r'.int of these standing coxnuiitlt- ff wiis plae-d under ! the control hi u Biajority <>’ m--m: -r,- from slavr-h-'ldin|g S’aF--r iiista-nce: ■ The <'omfnitt"c on Foreign Relations -. a.; ■ epnihosert rd th:- - menib--rs fr->m free State-s, I and four fro|m "slave Stpt-'s —Mason, of Virginia, cli-ajv—p. - T e<'<“' .:itee on Mi.ii.in- Allans x . - omposed -if ti r- - members from free States . I and four froin rvi'-c Stht-s Davis, of Mis kissippi, chairman The Cuhimittee on Naval Allaire was ! composed oi three m- iiibe-t from free Stat- ’s, ‘ and f our fronii.i-lave Stat es ’'.a 1 lory, of Florida, chairman I The Committ.e o,n tbt Ju-Ji-, ini'? was | posed of tb:f vfni'inbets from free States, l a ted four fro ch i-.St at- -s—Bayard , of 1 hla- ’ war-', cliairiila,!. I The Gonni-iitteA c.T. Private I.and f 'laiios ! was compose*! of thr-- mbers Iropi-fr-'c , States.-and (bur from s’-dve States—Benjamin, of Lcfustana, chairman. ■ The Commit te- on ' .’>'lian Affairs was ; composed of two mem!' To i'r-im tree States, ami five from slave St -ws Sebastian, of Arkansas, chiaiman. ’ Th- great power w b.cli standing connnit- , tee's of the .Niati otial Senate exercises </ver | questions relating to Foreign .Affairs, ComI rnerce, Military Affairs, Naval Affairs, the ' .I'iidiciarv. Indian J \fl'ai(s, Ac., have, been thus surrendered t.o those who- represent a sectional minority of the people ot the ) United States;. And this has been no accidental arrangement, nor the suggestion either of the great I'Xpprjenc-e, or super? r ' abilities of .the slavery pommitte men It is purely the submission of the majority- o: ■ the nation t.o the minority, m deference to i the demands of slavery. Ju Igo from a few .additional facts. Jesse I). Bright, one cf the most thorough pro-slav- :- men in t 1 ~ Union, and n slave-holder, declared th.' Se-ward, Chasq and Hale “Wy;e. l outside-c any healthy political organization ay •' -re therefore exchinled from )cTOirim’:-t' : -litiie- ' ly.” Yet Seward represented ,t -. largest value of mat.-ria 1 in the >'nion, the greatest cominlerce the gr- atest "■••aitb. the niost num-'r/'ii,'! population. Buth-. was opl posted to the ex’. Tision of Islavery, and therefore ’ivas- not al - >vefl'to open his mouth in ’ coinmitte, whet-- alt'real' husinf.ss a,- d-uie,.. ' in regard t.o any question that allect-d the " con iner-'- ar I cap-it.al of his ' State Could , iiing ‘ Keatfoci uply iinlair’- Again, triL i -ads o ' tile most uportant cbmnrittv.' in tho Ser. to are wi'i, ‘the -'xeeptioti of Hunter theim-islt. incompcijt men in tin body. I Mason, Mallory, Clay, Saqastian, are utterly 1 incalpal?! 'To diq barge the duties of chair- ■ men of-at; coiiimrttet- prqpcrly. And Sitni i.t-i - of Riiine Inland, S-’vva.rd. P’esenden, i'll iinbul, Chandler, Durkee Hale. King, and I oti.er Northern men, are j >st a-> notoriously , abb . aw: thoroughly posted m- n on all ques-tion.-f conn -cted! with com-merce, foreign affairs, and domestic affairs; And they rep-j-re.s-' it a- vast.proportion of)the wealth, trade i and jiopulutii’ii. ‘of the coujntry. Yet not a i man ot them i- -allowed tj position on any i committ-.-e, equal to his claim’s ot his conIst i tui'iic v Thu free States are ignored as a pnrlt -it the Ujhion, wbeii the Democracy I cornel to rnake up committ-ies. That is sec‘tiona'. slightly.— Tndinap State Journal. (UJUA lite of lieisure and ;a'life of laziness are two-diff'eront '' in'gs. ,A‘,r..i' 1 A .'V upFviif —• \ Farmer's pr< Hy '■i'i'igT 'p . -L ■